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Du Xunhe
Du Xunhe (; 846-?), Courtesy name Yanzhi (), Art name Jiuhua Shanren () was a Chinese poet of the late Tang dynasty, with one of his poems being included in the anthology ''Three Hundred Tang Poems''. Along with Nie Yizhong, Luo Yin, and Pi Rixiu, he was one of the key figures of the late Tang realist movement of Chinese poetry. Poetry Du's poems were known for their realistic description of the outer world as well as social-political criticism. He dedicated his poems to the life of commoners and the suffering ones. Du himself argued that the aim of poetry should be "the deliverance from suffering" (). Du Xunhe's literary style was influenced by Du Fu, Yuan Zhen and Bai Juyi. Many of his poems were revelations and exposures of the life of the people in the lowest social stratum while others criticize social injustice imposed by the imperial court of Tang. This was consistent with his realist and humanist ideals. Xunhe tends to apply simple languages in his poems. As a result, his ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Du Surname
Du () is a Chinese surname. The name is spelled ''Tu'' in Taiwan. In Hong Kong it is spelled as ''To'' and in Macao as ''Tou'', based on the pronunciation of 杜 in Cantonese. In Singapore and Malaysia, it is spelled as '' Toh'', based on the pronunciation of 杜 in Hokkien. The Vietnamese equivalent of the surname is Đỗ. However, when diacritics are dropped, it can also be from the Vietnamese surnames Dư 余 or Dũ 俞 (for both, the Chinese equivalent is Yu). It is the 129th surname in ''Hundred Family Surnames'' and is the 42nd most common surname in Mainland China as of 2020. Origin and Branches of ''Du'' (杜) The ancestors of the ''Du'' family are known as the Tangdu. The Tangdu resided southeast of Xi'an in Shaanxi province. The '' Fan'' (范) and ''Du'' clans share a common ancestor. Some members of the ''Du'' (杜) family are the Tuoba (拓跋) family of Emperor Xiaowen of Northern Wei. "Dugu" is the surname of Xianbei. Meanings of ''Du'' (杜) * The Chinese name ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Disaster Of Baima
''The'' is a grammatical article in English, denoting nouns that are already or about to be mentioned, under discussion, implied or otherwise presumed familiar to listeners, readers, or speakers. It is the definite article in English. ''The'' is the most frequently used word in the English language; studies and analyses of texts have found it to account for seven percent of all printed English-language words. It is derived from gendered articles in Old English which combined in Middle English and now has a single form used with nouns of any gender. The word can be used with both singular and plural nouns, and with a noun that starts with any letter. This is different from many other languages, which have different forms of the definite article for different genders or numbers. Pronunciation In most dialects, "the" is pronounced as (with the voiced dental fricative followed by a schwa) when followed by a consonant sound, and as (homophone of the archaic pronoun ''thee' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chinese Text Project
The Chinese Text Project (CTP; ) is a digital library project that assembles collections of early Chinese texts. The name of the project in Chinese literally means "The Chinese Philosophical Book Digitization Project", showing its focus on books related to Chinese philosophy. It aims at providing accessible and accurate versions of a wide range of texts, particularly those relating to Chinese philosophy, and the site is credited with providing one of the most comprehensive and accurate collections of classical Chinese texts on the Internet. Site contents Texts are divided into pre-Qin and Han texts, and post-Han texts, with the former categorized by school of thought and the latter by dynasty. The ancient (pre-Qin and Han) section of the database contains over 5 million Chinese characters, the post-Han database over 20 million characters, and the publicly editable wiki section over 5 billion characters. Many texts also have English and Chinese translations, which are paired with ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Quan Tangshi
''Complete Tang Poems'' (or ') is the largest collection of Tang poetry, containing some 49,000 lyric poems by more than twenty-two hundred poets. In 1705, it was commissioned at the direction of the Qing dynasty Kangxi Emperor and published under his name. The ''Complete Tang Poems'' is the major reservoir of surviving Tang dynasty poems, from which the pre-eminent shorter anthology, ''Three Hundred Tang Poems'', is largely drawn. Name The ''Complete Tang Poems'' is known as the ''Quan Tangshi'' ( zh, t=全唐詩, s=全唐诗, p=Quán Tángshī, l=Complete (collection of) Tang ''Shi (poetry), shi'' poetry, w=Ch'üan T'ang shih, first=t) in Chinese (also transliterated as the ''Quan Tang Shi'', ''Quantangshi'', or ''Ch'uan-T'ang-shih''). It is also translated in English as the ''Collected Tang Poems'' or the ''Complete Poems of the Tang Dynasty''. Compilation In 1705, the Kangxi Emperor issued an edict to Cao Xueqin#Family, Cao Yin, a trusted imperial booi aha, bondservant, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wen Jiabao
Wen Jiabao ( zh, s=温家宝, p=Wēn Jiābǎo; born 15 September 1942) is a Chinese retired politician who served as the 6th premier of China from 2003 to 2013. In his capacity as head of government, Wen was regarded as the leading figure behind China's economic policy. From 2002 to 2012, he held membership in the Politburo Standing Committee of the Chinese Communist Party, the country's ''de facto'' top power organ, where he was ranked third out of nine members and after General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party, general secretary Hu Jintao and Wu Bangguo, chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress. He worked as the director of the General Office of the Chinese Communist Party between 1986 and 1993, and accompanied Party general secretary Zhao Ziyang as Zhao's personal secretary to Tiananmen Square during the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre, where Zhao called on protesting students to leave the square and after which Zhao was removed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Siku Quanshu
The ''Siku Quanshu'', literally the ''Complete Library of the Four Treasuries'', is a Chinese encyclopedia commissioned during the Qing dynasty by the Qianlong Emperor. Commissioned in 1772 and completed in 1782, the ''Siku quanshu'' is the largest collection of books in imperial Chinese history, comprising 36,381 volumes, 79,337 manuscript rolls, 2.3 million pages, and about 997 million words. The complete encyclopedia contains an annotated catalogue of 10,680 titles along with a compendiums of 3,593 titles. The ''Siku Quanshu'' surpassed the 1403 ''Yongle Encyclopedia'' created by the previous Ming dynasty, which had been China's largest encyclopedia. Complete copies of the ''Siku Quanshu'' are held at the National Library of China in Beijing, the National Palace Museum in Taipei, the Gansu Library in Lanzhou, and the Zhejiang Library in Hangzhou. Compilation Creation The Qianlong Emperor of the Qing dynasty ordered the creation of the ''Siku Quanshu'' in 1772. Local a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Du Mu
Du Mu ( zh, c=杜牧, p=Dù Mù, w=Tu4 Mu4; 803–852) was a Chinese calligrapher, poet, and politician who lived during the late Tang dynasty. His courtesy name was Muzhi (), and art name Fanchuan (). He is best known for his lyrical and romantic quatrains. Regarded as a major poet during a golden age of Chinese poetry, his name is often mentioned together with that of another renowned Late Tang poet, Li Shangyin, as the "Little Li-Du" (), in contrast to the "Great Li-Du": Li Bai and Du Fu. Among his influences were Du Fu, Li Bai, Han Yu and Liu Zongyuan. Biography Du Mu was born in the Tang capital Chang'an (modern Xi'an) into an elite family, the Jingzhao Du clan, whose fortunes were declining. His grandfather was Du You, a minister at the Tang court and the compiler of the Tang Dynasty encyclopedia ''Tongdian''. He passed the '' jinshi'' ("Presented Scholar") level of the imperial civil service examination in 828 at the age of 25, and began his career as a bureaucr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Xin Wenfang
Xin may refer to: *Xin dynasty (), which ruled China from 9–23 AD *Xincan languages (ISO 639: xin), a small extinct family of Mesoamerican languages People *Xin (surname), Chinese surname * Empress Xin (Zhang Zuo's wife) (; died ), wife of the Chinese state Former Liang's ruler Zhang Zuo * Noble Consort Xin (1737–1764), consort of the Qianlong Emperor *Yue Xin (activist) (born 1996), Chinese student activist Philosophy * Xin (heart-mind), 心 * Xin (virtue), 信, one of the Three Fundamental Bonds and Five Constant Virtues Places *Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, abbreviated as Xin, the northwestern region of China *Xin County, Xinyang, Henan, China *Xin River, a tributary to Poyang Lake in Jiangxi Province Popular culture * ''Xin'' (comics), a comic book by Kevin Lau, or its main character *Xin, the "Ember Spirit", a character in ''Defense of the Ancients'' and ''Dota 2'' *"Xin", an episode of ''The Good Doctor'' Other uses * .xin, a top-level internet domain, op ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yuan Dynasty
The Yuan dynasty ( ; zh, c=元朝, p=Yuáncháo), officially the Great Yuan (; Mongolian language, Mongolian: , , literally 'Great Yuan State'), was a Mongol-led imperial dynasty of China and a successor state to the Mongol Empire after Division of the Mongol Empire, its division. It was established by Kublai (Emperor Shizu or Setsen Khan), the fifth khagan-emperor of the Mongol Empire from the Borjigin clan, and lasted from 1271 to 1368. In Chinese history, the Yuan dynasty followed the Song dynasty and preceded the Ming dynasty. Although Genghis Khan's enthronement as Khagan in 1206 was described in Chinese language, Chinese as the Han Chinese, Han-style title of Emperor of China, Emperor and the Mongol Empire had ruled territories including modern-day northern China for decades, it was not until 1271 that Kublai Khan officially proclaimed the dynasty in the traditional Han style, and the conquest was not complete until 1279 when the Southern Song dynasty was defeated in t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ji Yougong
Ji may refer to: Names and titles * Ji (surname), the pinyin romanization of several distinct Chinese surnames * Ji (Korean name), a Korean surname and element in given names (including lists of people with the name) * -ji, an honorific used as a suffix in many languages of India * J.I the Prince of N.Y, American rapper J.I. * Ji (or Hou Ji), the legendary founder of the Zhou dynasty Places in China * Jì (冀), pinyin abbreviation for the province of Hebei * Jí (吉), pinyin abbreviation for the province of Jilin * Ji (state in modern Beijing), an ancient Chinese state * Ji (state in modern Shandong) * Ji City (other), several places * Ji County (other), several places * Ji Prefecture (Shandong), a prefecture in imperial China * Ji Province, one of the Nine Provinces of ancient China * Ji River, either of two former rivers Organizations * Jamaat-e-Islami (other), several organizations * Jemaah Islamiyah (JI), a Southeast Asian militant Isl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fang Gan
Fang Gan (; 809–888), also known as Fang Xiongfei () and Xuanying (), was a Tang dynasty poet. Life and career Fang's father, Fang Su (), was a ''jinshi'' and Hangzhou-based magistrate who founded the Fang Clan of White Cloud () in White Cloud Village, Tonglu, Zhejiang. According to the tenth-century ''Jianjie lu'' () or ''Records of Warnings'', Fang Gan was the fourteenth son of his family. He was nicknamed "Fang Sanbai" (, literally "Fang Three Bows") because of his idiosyncrasy of bowing three times to whomever he met. Despite being academically gifted, he failed the imperial examination more than ten times, apparently because of his cleft lip which examiners felt would bring Chinese academia into disrepute. Fang successfully underwent surgery for his cleft lip about a decade after retiring to Jinghu. According to a poem by Song dynasty poet Xu Tianyou (), titled "Fan Gan Dao" () or "Fan Gan's Island", this operation took place around 880. Now referred to as "Buchun Xiansh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Old History Of The Five Dynasties
The ''Old History of the Five Dynasties'' ( zh, t=舊五代史, pinyin=, p=Jiù Wǔdài Shǐ) was an official history mainly focusing on Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period, Five Dynasties era (907–960), which controlled much of northern China proper, China. And it also includes some history of other south states during the era. It was compiled by the Song dynasty official-scholar Xue Juzheng in the first two decades of the Song dynasty, which was founded in 960. It is one of the Twenty-Four Histories recognized through Chinese history. The book comprises 150 chapters, and was in effect divided into 7 books, they are: ''Book of Liang'' (24 volume), ''Book of Tang'' (50 volume), ''Book of Jin'' (24 volume), ''Book of Han'' (11 volume), ''Book of Zhou'' (22 volume), ''Biography, Liezhuan'' (7 volume) and ''Zhi'' (12 volume), respectively''.'' After the ''New History of the Five Dynasties'' by Ouyang Xiu was published, it was no longer popular. In the 12th century it was remov ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
